Apple’s soon-to-be-launched software - which detects child abuse material on American iPhone users’ devices - has prompted concerns surrounding privacy and surveillance.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of the UK government has admitted to the use of self-deleting messages by civil servants and ministers.
Twitter’s new Tip Jar feature allows people, who use Twitter in English, to send money to users with a Tip Jar icon on their profile.
Multiple US cities have banned the use of facial recognition technology by their law enforcement departments.
The NHS is being taken to court by openDemocracy over a £23.5m contract with Palantir, the controversial Silicon Valley data-gathering and analytics company.
The legal professional privilege which applies in email correspondence does not extend to the attachments included in those emails. This has effectively been confirmed by the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant leave to appeal in Frasers Group Plc (formerly Sports Direct International plc) v The Financial Reporting Council Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 177.
Amidst the European Parliament’s regulatory crackdown on data collection and online monitoring, global internet firms risk being prohibited from automatically detecting child abuse imagery posted to their platforms.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways £20m for a data breach in September 2018 involving over 400,000 customers.
Following a legal challenge from privacy campaigners, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) admitted that the Government broke the law and launched the NHS “Test and Trace” programme without full assessment of the privacy implications.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently ruled that the EU-US Privacy Shield (the legal mechanism used to transfer data between the EU and the US) was invalid.